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Alexei's Passionate Revenge
HELEN BIANCHIN
Reunited…Natalya Montgomery had thought she was over Alexei Delandros,but working with him again rekindles old feelings and promises of the intense ardour they once shared. But if Natalya once held Alexei’s heart, now she only holds his contempt…For revenge!Natalya’s love almost destroyed Alexei, their lust having blinded him to the truth about her. But the formidable Greek won’t be fooled again! Natalya will pay for her betrayal in the most passionate way Alexei knows, and his vengeance will be all the more sweet…
Reunited...
Natalya Montgomery thought she was over Alexei Delandros, but working with him again rekindles old feelings and promises of the intense ardor they once shared. But if Natalya once held Alexei’s heart, now she only holds his contempt...
For revenge!
Natalya’s love almost destroyed Alexei; their lust blinded him to the truth about her. But the formidable Greek won’t be fooled again! Natalya will pay for her betrayal in the most passionate way Alexei knows, and his vengeance will be all the more sweet...
Alexei lowered his head and brushed his mouth against Natalya’s. He felt the slight tremble of her lips and parted them, tasting the sweetness of her mouth with the erotic slide of his tongue, sensing her hesitation and teasing her into compliance. He absorbed her faint sigh and went in deep.
Revenge—did this feel like revenge?
Not in any sense.
As his mouth closed over hers the edge of his tongue sought to breach the tight seam of her lips and won, and her resistance faded as she fought against desire.
‘Let me go, Alexei. We shouldn’t be doing this.’
‘Why? You’re enjoying this as much as I am.’
Natalya pulled away from him and Alexei let her go, despite wanting to pull her back into the strength of his arms. The kiss had stirred feelings in him he’d long tried to forget. Feelings only Natalya could ever evoke.
‘You think I’m willing to just scratch an itch with you, Alexei? Not going to happen.’
‘No?’
‘No. And if you think so you misjudge me,’ she replied, turning away from him—but not before noticing how his eyes had darkened and become almost black.
‘As you misjudge me,’ he assured her, far too quietly.
HELEN BIANCHIN was born in New Zealand and travelled to Australia before marrying her Italian-born husband. After three years they moved, returned to New Zealand with their daughter, had two sons, then resettled in Australia.
Encouraged by friends to recount anecdotes of her years as a tobacco share farmer’s wife living in an Italian community, Helen began setting words on paper and her first novel was published in 1975.
Currently Helen resides in Queensland, and her three children are now married with children of their own. An animal lover, Helen says her two beautiful Birman cats regard her study as as much theirs as hers, choosing to leap onto her desk every afternoon and sit upright between the computer monitor and keyboard as a reminder that they need to be fed…like, right now!
Books by Helen Bianchin
Mills & Boon Modern Romance
Alessandro’s Prize
Public Marriage, Private Secrets
The Andreou Marriage Arrangement
Bride, Bought and Paid For
The Italian’s Ruthless Marriage Command
Purchased: His Perfect Wife
The Martinez Marriage Revenge
The Greek Tycoon’s Virgin Wife
Purchased by the Billionaire
Wedlocked!
The Marriage Possession
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Alexei’s Passionate Revenge
Helen Bianchin
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ALEXEI’S PASSIONATE REVENGE
© 2018 Helen Bianchin
Published in Great Britain 2018
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ALEXEI’S
PASSIONATE
REVENGE
For my daughter, Lucia, with all my love.
Contents
Cover (#u7323ac8b-e0f2-509b-8740-8cd8b9a45b28)
Back Cover Text (#u9bee9cf4-8685-52f8-a25e-37bf30cf64fc)
Introduction (#u77f9793c-b8fc-5615-9fce-0a52dd6e680f)
About the Author (#ueab0c3a6-7138-5638-924e-3dc188b7bec2)
Title Page (#u59941dad-f34c-5900-a9a5-09e5fd609dd9)
Dedication (#u666c0a64-c845-5079-b25b-5c860d4e1cfd)
CHAPTER ONE (#uc4875ab6-5444-56f8-9ee8-fd67845dd448)
CHAPTER TWO (#u7b4f85d2-01c0-5299-a674-1c286b6616ae)
CHAPTER THREE (#u93f88705-961c-5002-9757-06ea2feda996)
CHAPTER FOUR (#u37ab5fdb-54bf-5540-9be9-6522f9217e0e)
CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)
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EPILOGUE (#litres_trial_promo)
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CHAPTER ONE (#u020e7a8d-919e-5314-93bf-f7ea48c0a77a)
‘GIVE ME A few minutes, then send her in.’
Alexei ended the call, slid the smartphone into the inside pocket of his jacket and stood in reflective silence as he studied the scene beyond the tinted plate-glass window.
Viewed from a high floor in an inner city office building, it appeared picture-postcard perfect with sparkling blue harbour waters against a backdrop of partially dark shrub-covered rock face showcasing glimpses of expensive real estate.
Sydney. The iconic Opera House, the expansive harbour bridge.
A large cosmopolitan city he’d departed beneath a deliberately fabricated cloud.
A city he’d vowed to return to in vastly different circumstances.
Which he had.
With a plan.
One which covered all the bases, and every possible contingency.
Five years ago he’d stood in this office space, denounced and discredited by Roman Montgomery, the owner of Montgomery Electronics, for daring to conduct a covert affair with Roman’s daughter, Natalya.
A young woman who had enjoyed a life of wealth and privilege since birth. Intelligent, having graduated from university with an MBA degree with honours...savvy, and employed as her father’s PA.
A life in which a thirty-year-old American nobody of Greek origin could never be a contender. As an added insult, Roman Montgomery had laughed at Alexei’s expressed honourable intentions, written out a cheque in lieu of notice and issued an immediate dismissal, adding the rider Natalya had merely been amusing herself with a temporary fling. What followed became an orchestrated farce as Alexei’s calls, emails and texts to Natalya were ignored, and within a matter of hours he discovered all her contact numbers had changed to an unlisted category.
Security guards posted in the main lobby of her apartment building ensured Alexei was denied access, and a determined attempt to reach her involving mild force resulted in a Restraining Order issued against him.
Which Alexei disregarded...to his folly.
The appearance of two police officers at his apartment with an arrest warrant provided a sobering experience at best. Invoking his right to legal representation ensured Alexei’s incarceration was brief.
The desire to vent at what he perceived to be an injustice had been eased...slightly...by a harsh soul-destructive session with a punching bag at a local gym. He could still recall the cautionary shout from a fellow member nearby...‘Hey, man, you aiming to kill that thing?’...resulting in one final vicious hit before he steadied the bag, tore off his boxing gloves, then turned and strode towards the changing rooms without so much as a word.
‘Better a punching bag than Roman Montgomery’s jaw,’ he muttered beneath his breath as he stood beneath a hot shower to dispense the sweat from his body before switching the dial to cold in a bid to cool off physically, mentally and emotionally.
Within a matter of days Alexei had boarded a flight to New York, reconnected with his widowed mother, his two brothers in Washington and worked every waking hour, prepared to do anything within the bounds of the law—and a few that hovered on the fringes—in order to establish the foundation of an empire to rival others in the world of electronics.
And he had, exceeding his own expectations, aided by a new invention embraced worldwide that had elevated him to billionaire status.
During the past five years success and wealth had provided Alexei with much. Real estate in several countries, including a Paris apartment, a vineyard nestled on the slopes of northern Italy, an apartment in Washington, a Santorini villa inherited from his paternal grandfather.
Women? He’d bedded his share...a selected few of whom he continued to regard with affection. Yet not one of them had captured and held his heart.
While innate ruthlessness had ensured Alexei gained control of Montgomery Electronics, Roman Montgomery’s daughter fitted another category entirely.
